Friday, July 22, 2016

Drying Sunflowers and Hydrangeas

This is a summer harvest vignette from our yard. I am drying the hydrangeas.
A lot of them turned brown on the bush this year. I don't remember
having so many turn brown before I could cut them off in get them in
water. The zinnias are producing well. The sunflowers were spent and I
wanted to enjoy letting them dry indoors because I knew the birds would
likely eat all the seeds.

We
had one sunflower with this massive head. I plan on saving the seeds
from this big one separately from the others. That way if I just use
those I will increase the likelihood of having bigger sunflowers next
year.

But
I love the look of the smaller heads as well, I think especially now at
this stage while they are still green around the outside.